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📚✨ Wednesday Would You Rather (Pt. 3) ✨📚

Welcome back to Wednesday Would You Rather! It is time to make some impossible bookish choices ... 👀

Pick your side for each one!

🧠 Forget the ending of your favorite book so you can reread it fresh OR 📖 Never be able to reread it again but remember it perfectly?
🏃 Read a book with an incredible ending but slow beginning OR 🔥 Read a book with a gripping start but disappointing ending?
📚 Have your TBR magically organized and prioritized OR ✨ Have every book you pick up instantly match your mood?
🖋️ Read a book with gorgeous prose but confusing plot OR 🧩 Read a book with simple writing but a brilliant plot?
📦 Only read books you already own OR 🏪 Only read books you borrow or get from the library?
🎬 Read the book before watching the adaptation OR 🍿 Watch the adaptation before reading the book?
📖 Be able to step into one book for a day OR 👀 Bring one fictional character into the real world?
💬 Only read dialogue-heavy books OR 🌄 Only read descriptive, atmospheric books?
🧭 Always know exactly what to read next OR 🎲 Always discover books completely by surprise?
❤️ Only read books you’ll rate 5 stars OR 🤯 Read a mix of hits and misses but discover new favorites?

Drop your answers below 👇 (bonus points if you explain your most controversial take 😏)

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Emma R. Alban

Mean Girls meets Northanger Abbey in this brand new, sapphic, rivals-to-lovers Regency Romance by USA Today bestselling author Emma R. Alban! When country-bred Catherine Pine relocates to Bath in 1817, she and her mother come face-to-face with her mother’s arch nemesis, Lady Tisend, and her daughter, the wildly popular and gorgeous Lady Rosalie. Though once her very best friend, Mrs. Pine alleges Lady Tisend ultimately did her a great injustice. Twenty-five years later, she sees the perfect opportunity for retribution: Catherine will win the favor of Lady Rosalie’s suitor, Mr. Dean. Together, Catherine and her mother will ruin the Tisends’ lives, secure Catherine a fruitful match, and launch a fully triumphant return to Bath. It’s the perfect plan for revenge. Only Catherine soon discovers that there’s more to Lady Rosalie’s mean streak than meets the eye. Lady Rosalie is by far the wittiest, cleverest, most intriguing young woman Catherine’s ever met, and she’s utterly smitten. Meanwhile, Rosalie feels trapped in her perfect life as Bath’s favorite daughter and resident mean girl. There’s no challenge anymore, no excitement, no surprise. But when she notices newcomer Catherine gunning for her spot as queen bee, Rosalie finally feels a spark again. She determines to meet Catherine’s challenge with gusto, because Catherine ignites something in her. Something Rosalie absolutely doesn’t want to extinguish. As their mothers force them into increasingly absurd contests of wit and feminine charms to win Mr. Dean’s affections, Rosalie and Catherine instead find themselves falling for each other, scheme, by barb, by catty jab… Can their sizzling rivalry really become a match to last?

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Mar 18, 2026

1.5

Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 1.0Plot: 1.5

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I had much higher hopes for this book. The characters were unlikeable, the plot was boring and sometimes confusing, and I found myself zoning out and completely missing chunks because I just didn't care enough to pay attention. There wasn't anything to keep me reading other than my own hope that it would get better. It didn't.

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See What I Have Done

Sarah Schmidt

In this riveting debut novel, See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt recasts one of the most fascinating murder cases of all time into an intimate story of a volatile household and a family devoid of love. On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to her maid: Someone’s killed Father. The brutal ax-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, leaves little evidence and many unanswered questions. While neighbors struggle to understand why anyone would want to harm the respected Bordens, those close to the family have a different tale to tell—of a father with an explosive temper; a spiteful stepmother; and two spinster sisters, with a bond even stronger than blood, desperate for their independence. As the police search for clues, Emma comforts an increasingly distraught Lizzie whose memories of that morning flash in scattered fragments. Had she been in the barn or the pear arbor to escape the stifling heat of the house? When did she last speak to her stepmother? Were they really gone and would everything be better now? Shifting among the perspectives of the unreliable Lizzie, her older sister Emma, the housemaid Bridget, and the enigmatic stranger Benjamin, the events of that fateful day are slowly revealed through a high-wire feat of storytelling.

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first person pov

This is a bit of a weird one, tbh

I’ve heard that some people read a book written in the first person pov as if it’s themselves, almost like a diary.

Is this a common thing, or is it just a social media thing?

I personally read it as the inner thoughts of the character, but I’m curious to see if anyone disagrees or reads it as something else!!

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Playback speed?

Ok you guys, what's your top audiobook playback speed record? And what book were you reading? Also im curious what's everyone's norm? And for that matter, what was the slowest you had to put a book for?

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Mar 17, 2026

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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READ THIS BOOK, I BEG YOU!

I have never enjoyed an anthology so much in my life. It was well written, well structured, and very thought provoking. Each story was something that I could actually see happening given the context, and the characters all felt real too. We see characters get modifications forced on them, we see those who choose to get them, and we see what happens to the world when certain people decide when modifications are acceptable. I wish this book came out earlier, because I absolutely would have loved to have this book be part of the curriculum when I was a student.

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Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

Arwen Elys Dayton

For fans of television shows Black Mirror and Westworld, this compelling, mind-bending novel is a twisted look into the future, exploring how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimen and what it means to be human at all. Set in our world, spanning the near to distant futures, Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful is a novel made up of six interconnected stories that ask how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimens, and how hard that will push the definition of "human." This extraordinary work explores the amazing possibilities of genetic manipulation and life extension, as well as the ethical quandaries that will arise with these advances. The results range from the heavenly to the monstrous. Deeply thoughtful, poignant, horrifying, and action-packed, Arwen Elys Dayton's Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful is groundbreaking in both form and substance.

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Favorite Historical Period? Fiction or Nonfiction

What is your favorite historical period to read about? I’ll go first! I am very partial to stories set in the Georgian Era in England! I also love reading nonfiction books about various aspects of life at that time. Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors!

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Mar 16, 2026

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Enjoyment: 1.0Quality: 2.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 2.0

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I don't know if I just didn't get it, but a lot of the stories in this collection felt pointless to me. It might be because they were written within the constraints of being short stories, but it felt like I was supposed to be taking something that was just out of reach. I found "The Glasses" to be funny enough, but again, I didn't see a point to it. "Access Fantasy" intrigued me, but there just wasn't enough there. I found "Super Goat Man" to be too long-winded, and I honestly can't even remember the rest.

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Men and Cartoons: Stories

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem’s new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers—nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of Lethem’s novels in all these pieces—narrators who can’t stop babbling, hapless would-be detectives, people with unusual powers that do them no good, hot-blooded academics, and characters whose clever repartee masks lovelorn desperation as they negotiate both the stumbling path of romance and the bittersweet obligations of friendship. Among “The Vision” is a story about drunken neighborhood parlor games, boys who dress up as superheroes, and the perils of snide curiosity. “Access Fantasy” is part social satire, part weird detective story. Evoking Lethem’s earliest work, it conjures up a world divided between people who have apartments and people trapped in an endless traffic jam behind The One-Way Permeable Barrier. “The Spray” is a simple story about how people in love deal with their past. A magical spray is involved. “Vivian Relf” is a tour de force about loss. A man meets a woman at a party; they’re sure they’ve met before, but they haven’t. As the years progress this strangely haunting encounter comes to define the narrator’s life. “The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door” is a Borgesian tale that features suicidal sheep. (This story won a Pushcart Prize when first published in Conjunctions .) “Super Goat Man” is a savagely funny exposé of the failures of the sixties baby boomers, and of their children. Sparkling with the off-beat humor and subtle insights, Men and Cartoons is a welcome addition to the shelf of the writer “whose bold imagination and sheer love of words defy all forms and expectations and place him among his country’s foremost novelists.” — Salon

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